Hawaii - Netflix

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Hawaii can seduce just about anyone...cops and criminals alike.
Murder, drug-running and organized cartels filter through the unique
island culture to represent just some of the big-city casework that this
big island police force confronts. Where else would cops discover a
smoldering torso at the base of an active volcano? The diverse group of
cops and detectives may work against a breathtaking backdrop of jungles
and seascapes, but they can never take a vacation from the tangle of
local and international criminals who constantly cross their paths. It's
never a typical crime scene and these are not TV's typical cops - which
is exactly what makes "Hawaii" so alluring.

Type: Scripted

Languages: English

Status: Ended

Runtime: 60 minutes

Premier: 2004-09-01

Hawaii - Hawaiian Islands - Netflix

The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago
of eight major islands, several atolls, numerous smaller islets, and
seamounts in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some 1,500 miles (2,400
kilometers) from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure
Atoll. Formerly the group was known to Europeans and Americans as the
“Sandwich Islands”, a name chosen by James Cook in honor of the then
First Lord of the Admiralty John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. The
contemporary name is derived from the name of the largest island, Hawaii
Island. The Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown by wealthy U.S. and
European settlers in 1893. The usurpers then established a republic, and
despite opposition from the majority of the Hawaiian people,
successfully negotiated with the United States for annexation in 1898.
The U.S. state of Hawaii now occupies the archipelago almost in its
entirety (including the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands), with
the sole exception of Midway Island, which instead separately belongs to
the United States as one of its unincorporated territories within the
United States Minor Outlying Islands. The Hawaiian Islands are the
exposed peaks of a great undersea mountain range known as the
Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, formed by volcanic activity over a
hotspot in the Earth's mantle. The islands are about 1,860 miles (3,000
km) from the nearest continent.

Hawaii - Earthquakes - Netflix

The Hawaiian Islands have many earthquakes, generally caused by volcanic
activity. Most of the early earthquake monitoring took place in Hilo, by
missionaries Titus Coan, Sarah J. Lyman and her family. From 1833 to
1896, approximately 4 or 5 earthquakes were reported per year. Hawaii
accounted for 7.3% of the United States' reported earthquakes with a
magnitude 3.5 or greater from 1974 to 2003, with a total 1533
earthquakes. Hawaii ranked as the state with the third most earthquakes
over this time period, after Alaska and California. On October 15, 2006,
there was an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 off the northwest coast
of the island of Hawaii, near the Kona area of the big island. The
initial earthquake was followed approximately five minutes later by a
magnitude 5.7 aftershock. Minor-to-moderate damage was reported on most
of the Big Island. Several major roadways became impassable from rock
slides, and effects were felt as far away as Honolulu, Oahu, nearly 150
miles (240 km) from the epicenter. Power outages lasted for several
hours to days. Several water mains ruptured. No deaths or
life-threatening injuries were reported. On May 4, 2018 there was a 6.9
earthquake in the zone of volcanic activity from Kīlauea. Earthquakes
are monitored by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory run by the USGS.